customer service

Employee turnover is expensive and can be catastrophic to morale and customer service quality. No one wants to see their top talent walk out the door. But how can you keep retention high at your company? We’ve put together a white paper with some stats and advice to help you increase your employee retention rates and keep employees (and customers) satisfied.

In the last few years, a wave of digital technologies changed the banking landscape - social/ mobile altered the way banks engage with customers, analytics enabled hyper personalized offerings by making sense of large datasets, Cloud technologies shifted the computing paradigm from CapEx to OpEx, enabling delivery of business processes as services from third-party platforms.
Now, a second wave of disruption is set to drive even more profound changes - including robotic process automation (RPA), AI, IOT instrumentation, blockchain distributed ledger and shared infrastructure, and open banking platforms controlled by application programming interfaces (API). As these technologies become commercialized, and demand increases for digitally-enabled services, we will see unprecedented disruption, as non-traditional banks and fintechs rush into all segments of the banking space. This whitepaper examines key considerations for banks as they explore value in the emerging Digital 2.0 world.

The Internet of Things is growing fast: By 2025, IoT devices will transmit an estimated 90 zettabytes of data to their intended targets, according to IDC. Armed with information, businesses can revolutionise everything from fraud detection to customer service. But first, they need an architecture that supports real-time analytics so they can gain actionable insights from their IoT data.
Read the complete report sponsored by Google Cloud, and learn how to mitigate key IoT-related challenges.

If there’s one thing that stands out about central government, it’s the appetite for digital transformation. Whether delivering new customer-facing websites to drive better engagement with services or establishing a centre of excellence to accelerate the take-up of robotic process automation (RPA), UK government is embracing opportunities to modernise with new technologies.
But despite the great strides made in the last few years, the UK is slipping backwards in E-Government development terms – down from #1 in 2016 to #4 in 2018, according to the UN E-Government Survey 2018. Some argue this is due to the government having tackled the more straightforward digitisation opportunities and because it is now facing the bigger, more complex systems that need modernising. Our research shows that there are also wider challenges, including uncertainty around the impact of Brexit, budgetary pressures and emerging technologies, coming into play.
So what needs to happen to overcome our challenges

As customers demand and expect more of a digitized experience, the scale and volume of secure data that’s being transmitted across the network is increasing exponentially. At the same time, across the APAC region high digital connectivity, contrasted with low cybersecurity awareness, growing cross-border data transfers and weak regulations have made this data a global target.
The growth in the “as-a-service” nature of the cybercrime marketplace is also fueling an increase in the number of traditional crime groups and individuals drawn into cyber offending. New sources of vulnerability from mobile, BYOD, CYOD, web-services and IoT devices are further broadening the cyber threat landscape with ever-more sophisticated forms of malware and DDoS attacks.
Download the IDC Report to get some tips on how to stay protected against cybercrime.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework seeks to create a
harmonized data protection framework across the European Union, and aims
to give back EU citizens control of their personal data by imposing stricter
requirements for those hosting and processing this data, anywhere in the
world.
IBM is committed to putting data responsibility first and providing solutions
that are secure to the core for all customers. As such, IBM Cloud has fully
adopted the EU Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Service providers
– meaning we agree to meet the entirety of its stringent requirements.

As technology improves, retailers are relying more and more on their customer service to gain an advantage and differentiate themselves from the competition. Providing a pleasant customer experience can turn a first-time shopper into a lifelong buyer.
By reading this Epicor eBook, you’ll discover the important role mobile technology plays in delivering faster, service. Retailers everywhere are implementing mobile tools to empower their employees to support customers—from stock and pricing information to mobile checkout.
Epicor Eagle N Series is a fully integrated retail management system that offers a whole host of mobile tools to help you service your customers, stay informed, and make decisions from anywhere. Read the eBook and learn how the mobility of Epicor Eagle N Series can provide your retail business with a competitive advantage.

As technology improves, retailers are relying more and more on their customer service to gain an advantage and differentiate themselves from the competition. Providing a pleasant customer experience can turn a first-time shopper into a lifelong buyer.
By reading this Epicor eBook, you’ll discover the important role mobile technology plays in delivering faster, service. Retailers everywhere are implementing mobile tools to empower their employees to support customers—from stock and pricing information to mobile checkout.
Epicor Eagle N Series is a fully integrated retail management system that offers a whole host of mobile tools to help you service your customers, stay informed, and make decisions from anywhere. Read the eBook and learn how the mobility of Epicor Eagle N Series can provide your retail business with a competitive advantage.

For the second annual “State of Service” report,
Salesforce Research surveyed more than 2,600
customer service professionals worldwide to discover:
• How service leaders are responding to
heightened customer demands
• Which habits are hallmarks of top service teams
• How smart tech is impacting service protocols
In this report, high-performing service teams are the
top 14% who rate both their service performance
and performance versus competitors as excellent.
See page 3 for further information on performance.

Field service managers are challenged to optimize resources and manage costs
while delighting customers. A modern platform that provides field staff with a
robust set of tools and capabilities (including offline), intelligent analytics, and the
broader capabilities of the Salesforce platform (such as Einstein and IoT cloud) gave
FSL customers the ability to not just cut costs but optimize their field service
operations. All early adopters experienced productivity and efficiency savings;
Nucleus expects that as they gain more maturity with FSL they will find clear
correlations with increased customer satisfaction and increased field-service related
revenues as well.

The pillars that are driving a superior customer service
experience are changing. It used to be that just answering
a customer’s question correctly and in a somewhat timely
manner would cut it — but in 2016 that’s not so. Your
customers carry more devices, and are more connected,
informed and empowered. Today’s ultra-smart customer
demands connected, seamless interactions, experiences
where they can choose the service that best suits their
needs and consistently offers personalized journeys across
all devices. More often than not, the future of business
success often depends on whether companies can deliver
on those expectations.

"Many financial services firms have automated the vast majority of key processes and customer experiences. However, the “last mile” of most transactions – completing the agreement– far too often relies on the same inefficient pen-and-paper processes of yesteryear.
Digitising agreements using DocuSign lets you keep processes digital from end to end. Completing transactions no longer requires documents to be printed and shipped, and re-keyed on the back end.
Read the whitepaper to learn how leading financial services organisations use straight-through processing by automating the last mile of business transactions to:
- Speed processes by 80% or more, often going from days or weeks to just minutes
- Reduce NIGO by anywhere from 55% to 93%
- Achieve a 300% average ROI "

Live Chat software can help you to increase online sales conversions and customer service productivity - if you use it correctly. To maximize your live chat ROI it's important to select the right live chat vendor. This PDF provides some essential tips that you should consider in making the best selection.

Consumers worldwide continue to adopt and use technology in their shopping experience.
Faced with rising customer expectations and increasing competitive pressures, retailers
now are prioritizing in-store innovation. Many retailers have adopted multichannel
implementations, in which mobile, web, and in-store shopping are enabled but not delivered
consistently to the customer. The next step in this evolution is an omnichannel strategy, now
being deployed by some retailers, which presents a consistent shopping experience across
mobile, web, and in-store channels. Omnichannel also enables retailers to integrate back-end
infrastructure technologies (e.g., servers, databases, etc.) and cloud-based services (e.g., loyalty
programs, personalized recommendations, inventory management, etc.) to improve many
aspects of store and enterprise operations.
An omnichannel strategy relies on several core and supporting technologies. The key factors in
evaluating any omnichannel-enabling solution includ

To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.

Business Service Management (BSM) is of growing importance in the IT world. By managing IT systems according to the business services they support - like order entry, online sales, shipping, or customer service - IT is able to deliver on real business goals like providing competitive advantage, improving customer satisfaction, driving revenue growth, and increasing shareholder value.

Verisign has a unique view into distributed denial of service (DDos) attack trends, including attack statistics, behavioral trends and future outlook. The below data contains observations and insights about attack frequency and size derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services from January through March 2017.

Supporting the Buyer Journey with Customer Service, which discusses the opportunity for customer service and support teams to improve the entire buyer experience through continuous pre and post-purchase engagement

For companies and buyers alike, customer service has traditionally been used as a troubleshooting tool. Forrester found that companies believe that nearly 50% of all buyers still view customer service as a post-purchase resource, rather than a purchasing aid, and in response, companies have positioned their customer service capabilities to match that expectation. However, Forrester conducted a custom survey of 247 companies and found that this reactive, postpurchase-only customer service mindset can result in missed sales opportunities and contributes to greater purchase dissatisfaction.

This assessment shows that enterprises adopt Red Hat Fuse because they believe in a community-based open source approach to integration for modernizing their integration infrastructure that delivers strong ROI. For these organizations, Fuse was part of a larger digital transformation initiative and was also used to modernize integration.
IDC interviewed organizations using Fuse to integrate important business applications across their heterogeneous IT environments. These Red Hat customers reported that Fuse has enabled them to complete substantially more integrations at a higher quality level, thereby supporting their efforts to deliver timely and functional applications and digital services. Efficiencies in application integration with Fuse have generated significant value for study participants, which IDC quantifies at an average value of $75,453 per application integrated per year ($985,600 per organization). They have attained this value by: » Enabling more efficient and effectiv